A parallel algorithm to extract information about the motion of road traffic using image analysis

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-152

  Zhang, Xu ^a,b   Forshaw, M R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ATKINS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL ALGORITHM; ROAD TRAFFIC;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TELEVISION SYSTEMS; TRANSPUTERS;

TRAFFIC MOVEMENT DIRECTION; TRAFFIC MOVEMENT SPEED;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0031120013     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-090X(97)00007-7     Document Type: Article

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